View of two small lakes, and the Sawatch Range from Mosquito Pass road in Lake County, Colorado. Shows a dirt road and probably aerial mining tramway towers. Patches of snow are are on the mountains and hills.

View of Salida (Chaffee County), Colorado, and the Sawatch Mountains. Shows Denver and Rio Grande tracks, two trestle bridges across the Arkansas River, freight cars, and the depot. The Hotel Monte Christo and Central School are visible.

Smoke rises from Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive #489 (2-8-2) beside the Shavano water tank on Marshall Pass in Saguache County, Colorado. Shows a shack, utility poles and the Sawatch Range.

Smoke rises from Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive #489 (2-8-2), with a consist of freight cars, on the upper level of a switchback near Garfield in Chaffee County, Colorado. The locomotive has a pilot mounted snowplow. Shows snow...

View of Turquoise Lake from Hagerman Pass in Lake County, Colorado. Shows a dirt road and probably the old railroad bed. The Sawatch Range is in the distance. Clouds and mist cover the mountains. Shows a rainbow.

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive #489 (2-8-2), with a pilot snowplow and consist of freight cars, approaches a switchback near Garfield in Chaffee County, Colorado. Shows smoke above the locomotive, snow and rocky slopes in the...

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive #489 (2-8-2), with a pilot snowplow and a consist of freight cars, backs through an upper switchback near Garfield in Chaffee County, Colorado. Shows smoke above the locomotive, snow and rocky...

View of Leadville in Lake County, Colorado. Shows miners gathered at a mine. Shows headframes, tailings piles, smelters with smokestacks, and frame or brick buildings and houses. Snow is on the Sawatch Range in the distance.

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad narrow gauge locomotive #494 (2-8-2), and baggage cars #165 and #163, emerge from the snowshed on the summit of Marshall Pass in Saguache County, Colorado. The train is a Rocky Mountain Railroad Club excursion...

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad narrow gauge locomotive #494 (2-8-2) and passenger cars are outside the snowshed on the summit of Marshall Pass in Saguache County, Colorado. The train is a Rocky Mountain Railroad Club excursion special....

View of the snow covered town of Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Shows wood frame houses, churches, a Colorado Midland Railroad tracks and trestle, and probably the Coronado Mine building. The Sawatch Mountain range is in the distance.

View of the Leadville Mining District (Lake County) Colorado; shows mines, ore car tracks, tailings and tree stumps, and a school building in Adelaide. Mount Massive and the Sawatch Mountains are in the distance.

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad narrow gauge locomotive #489 (2-8-2) and freight cars enter the west end of the snowshed on the summit of Marshall Pass in Saguache County, Colorado. The train is the last to travel the Marshall Pass route....

Smoke rises from Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad narrow gauge locomotive 480, it hauls freight cars near the snowshed on Marshall Pass in Saguache County, Colorado. Shows a snow fence on the slope near the tracks, and mountains in the...

Aerial view of The Palisades, a cliff beside Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad tracks near Alpine Station in Gunnison County, Colorado. Shows a stone support wall beside narrow gauge tracks, and wagon roads near buildings in the valley. Snow is...

Smoke rises from Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad narrow gauge locomotive #489 (2-8-2) on the last westbound freight train over Marshall Pass at Shirley in Saguache County, Colorado. Two men pose on the locomotive cab. Shows a water tank,...

Aerial view of The Palisades, a cliff beside Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad tracks near Alpine Station in Gunnison County, Colorado. A man sits and poses on a boulder next to narrow gauge tracks. Snow is on steep slopes in the Sawatch...

View of The Palisades, a cliff beside Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad tracks near Alpine Station in Gunnison County, Colorado. Shows a stone support wall beside narrow gauge tracks, wagon roads and buildings in the valley. Snow is on steep...

View of the ruins of Alpine Station near the West Portal of the Alpine Tunnel in (Gunnison County), Colorado. Shows probably the abandoned depot, telegraph station and boarding house and the ruins of the stone engine house. Railroad ties are on the...

View of Hagerman Pass, on the Colorado Midland Railway Company route, in Lake County, Colorado. Shows snowsheds, the great Hagerman Trestle, a passenger train, and the construction camp for the Busk Ivanhoe Tunnel, with a water tank, railroad...

View northwest over Salida and South Park, Chaffee County, Colorado, shows Denver and Rio Grande Railroad passenger coaches and freight cars, Arkansas River, residences, businesses, Salida High School and the Sawatch Mountains in the background....

View of the Arkansas River valley near Salida (Chaffee County), Colorado. Denver and Rio Grande railroad tracks and a few houses are visible. The Sawatch Mountains, with Mount Shavano and Jones Peak is in the distance.

A boy stands by a white stone gravemarker with lathe turned pillars and a hipped gable roof east above Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado. View below him includes cars and shops of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, the Monte Cristo Hotel; a bridge...